https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:18:59 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/kittredge-a-e/35896/ https://wist.info/kittredge-a-e/35896/#respond Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:26:15 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=35896 I never hear parents exclaim impatiently, “Children, you must not make so much noise,” that I do not think how soon the time may come when those parents would give all the world, could they hear once more the ringing laughter which once so disturbed them.

Abbott Eliot "A. E." Kittredge (1834-1912) American clergyman and Presbyterian leader
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